“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Abraham Lincoln “Success doesn’t make you and failure doesn’t break you.” – Zig Ziglar
Life Lessons on Failure
It was my senior year at Sammamish High School in Bellevue, WA and I was preparing to take that next big step in many young peoples lives. I was looking into attending college and had begun the process of checking out schools and determining what kind of options that I had in front of me. My grades were solid (about 3.4); I was very active in sports from football, wrestling & track. In addition, I was involved in Read More...
This video shares the failures of famous people before they become great. You can overcome mistakes and you can be great…regardless of how many times you try and fail. These people did.
Fear of failure is the greatest obstacle to success. Failure doesn’t hold you back; it is the anticipation of failure that can sabotage your efforts to achieve your goals. Are you letting the fear of failure scare you into being overly cautious?
If you are….stop! Take the time to identify, define and analyze what you are afraid of.
Once you have identified your greatest fear, write out the answers to these questions:
1. How does this fear hold me back?
2. How does this fear help me?
3. What Read More...
I want to talk about how to deal with one of the most frustrating and demotivating things that happen to people- the slump.
We all face them at one point or another, and how you handle yourself through a slump or “losing streak” determines how quickly you get out of it. As Dr. Suess says, “Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.”
Here are a 3 tips that I’ve found helpful:
1. Don’t beat yourself up
When it dawns on you that you are in a pattern you don’t like (out of shape, not selling as well as you were, losing ground financially- whatever), you must first stop any feelings of guilt or shame that surround the situation. Simply understanding that a little losing streak doesn’t make you a Read More...
This rare video of Earl Nightingale was rescued from a VCR dub of the original film.
In it, Earl Nightingale retells and rerecords the highlights of his best seller, The Strangest Secret. He discusses the key to success and the key to failure… Sit back, relax, listen and open your mind to the words of Read More...
First of all, thank you to those who participated in our Setback to Success contest and shared a success stories. I truly believe that the more we reinforce our successes the more often we will experience and look for them in the future. Our successes are proof positive that we can accomplish amazing things if we just believe.
If you feel stuck in a setback situation, read these stories. They will give you the hope and inspiration you need to move forward to your own success.
3 lessons came to mind as I read your testimonials and Read More...
How can you tell how effectively you’re studying?What I’m about to tell you can really turn your grades around if you can get your head around it. Don’t pass it off as something simple and perhaps not worth thinking about because I believe it’s one of the easiest ways to improve your grades if you bother to make it a part of how you study.
Before I tell you what it is I want to ask you a question.
Let’s say there are two music students who want to learn the piano but one of them is unfortunately deaf. Which student do you think will be able Read More...
Have you ever touched a hot iron and then pulled your hand away really quickly to avoid getting burned? Did you have to think to yourself, “Gee! – this iron is hot – I better not touch it any longer because it’ll probably cause a really bad burn on my hand.” The answer is obviously NO! You wouldn’t have had any time to think about what you should do and pulling your hand away is automatic.
It’s what we call a ‘reflex’ action. It doesn’t involve much, if any, thinking because by the time you think about it, it’s too Read More...
One of the most effective ways of learning naturally is by making mistakes. I’m sure you’ve heard people say that we learn by making mistakes.How many times have you also heard people say “don’t make mistakes”? Lots of times I bet.
In tennis, and any sport, mistakes and correcting them, is called practice. You know immediately whether you’ve made a mistake in tennis when the ball goes out of court, and you try to correct that mistake the next time. This is called ‘learning how to play tennis’.
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Abraham Lincoln
I want to talk about how to deal with one of the most frustrating and demotivating things that happen to people- the slump.
